{"id":1321876,"date":"2025-11-18T10:17:30","date_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:17:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-ballistic-missiles-and-drones-how-the-air-defense-system-performed\/"},"modified":"2025-11-18T10:17:30","modified_gmt":"2025-11-18T08:17:30","slug":"the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-ballistic-missiles-and-drones-how-the-air-defense-system-performed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/the-russian-army-attacked-ukraine-with-ballistic-missiles-and-drones-how-the-air-defense-system-performed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Russian army attacked Ukraine with ballistic missiles and drones: how the air defense system performed"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Russian army attacked several regions of Ukraine with attack drones and Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Most of the hostile targets were shot down by air defense forces.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Air Force reported<\/a> this.<\/p>\n

“On the night of November 18 (from 8:00 PM on November 17), the enemy attacked with four Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Rostov and Voronezh regions of the Russian Federation, and 114 Shahed, Gerbera, and other types of attack UAVs in the directions of Kursk, Orel, Millerovo, Millerovo, and Crimea, about 70 of which were Shaheds,” the statement said.<\/p>\n

The air attack was repelled by aviation, anti-aircraft missile forces, electronic warfare units, unmanned aerial systems, and mobile fire groups of the Ukrainian Defense Forces.<\/p>\n

According to preliminary data, as of 08:30, air defense forces shot down and suppressed 101 enemy Shahed, Gerber and other types of drones in the north, south and east of the country.<\/p>\n

As a reminder, according to the General Staff, as of the morning of November 18, Russia has lost approximately 1,160,380 troops since the beginning of its full-scale invasion of Ukraine<\/a> . Over the past 24 hours, enemy casualties have reached 960.<\/p>\n

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The Russian army attacked several regions of Ukraine with attack drones and Iskander-M ballistic missiles. Most of the hostile targets were shot down by air defense forces. The Air Force reported this. “On the night of November 18 (from 8:00 PM on November 17), the enemy attacked with four Iskander-M ballistic missiles from the Rostov […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":1254933,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[76871,76872,76874],"class_list":["post-1321876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-2","category-news-feed","category-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1321876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1321876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1254933"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1321876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prm.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1321876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}